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Keith Bevan Richardson vs Yakov Estrin
10th Correspondence World Championship (1978) (correspondence), ICCF, Jul-01
Spanish Game: Open. Dilworth Variation (C82)  ·  1-0

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Jan-09-08
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  Jonathan Sarfati: A key game for the Dilworth. This shows the importance for White of keeping his ♗-pair. Even two extra pawns don't save Black, because they are firmly blocked, and White's ♙s and ♗s are mutually protected, so Black's ♖ has no counterplay and he can't make a passed ♙ with either his ♔-side or ♕-side majority.

Black probably wouldn't have given up in an OTB game, but in correspondence he realised that White would be able to penetrate with his ♔ to either c5 or g6 and clean up ♙s.

Jan-09-08
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  Open Defence: hmmmm no one has tried this in my Open Games in CC, too bad I always wanted to essay the Dilworth, they all seem to fancy 9.Nbd2
Dec-08-19
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  Jonathan Sarfati: Here is one line to show that White will break through with his ♔:

38...♔d7 39.♗d4 ♖g8 40.♔f4 ♔e6 41.♗c5 ♖a8 42.♗f5+ ♔f6 43.♗d4+ ♔f7 44.♔e5 ♖d8 45.♗c5 ♔e8 46.♔e6 ♖d7 47.♗b6 ♖b7 48.♗g6+ ♔f8 49.♗c5+ ♔g8 50.♔d6 and wins Black's ♕-side ♙s.

Mar-05-25
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  perfidious: <Open Defence: hmmmm no one has tried this in my Open Games in CC, too bad I always wanted to essay the Dilworth, they all seem to fancy 9.Nbd2>

As noted elsewhere, future GM Patrick Wolff amongst others slyly circumvented the Dilworth against me by going in for the move order 9.Be3 Be7 10.c3; this was popular in the 1980s.

Mar-05-25
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  Open Defence: 1980s lines were still in vogue in India in the 2000s XD

In this game it would be interesting to see the analysis of 16...Rae8

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